Four of us just got back from delivering a van full of Radio
Flyer Red Wagons and Tricycles to the children at Sojourner Center
in Phoenix.

The squeals of delight from the preschoolers when they saw the
trikes and wagons lined up on their playground made my heart skip a
beat. Those kids were adorable!

One
little 4-year-old boy hopped on a trike and took off around the
walkway at full speed. Others took their time and checked out the
goods before trying them out. (The adults were delighted as well.
We brought fudge brownies for them to share.)

I wish all our team members at Fairytale Brownies could have
been with us at the center, but I know they had just as much fun
building the toys for the children at our teambuilding event the
day before.

During the event, eight Fairytale Brownies teams played games to
earn parts to build their tricycles and wagons.They burst balloons
on their bellies, caught balls in buckets on their heads, lit up
tap lights with thrown bean bags, and found color-coded...

We’re not the only dessert
company to engage into the cookie game. Ben & Jerry’s, which
has a long history of producing excellent cookie-based ice cream
products, recently launched three new flavors of ice cream that are
actually wrapped around a core of cookie and cookie butter.
Yum!

Joanne Fluke
has created a unique literary combination that we just had to share
with our readers. Fluke writes mystery novels that contain actual
baking recipes throughout the text.

Her latest work is Double Fudge Brownie Murder, which is the
18th installment of a series starring character Hannah
Swensen. According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “Even though Hannah’s
fabulous brownies can be found at the scene of the crime in the new
book, it’s not a poisoning case.”

Whew! That’s certainly a relief to us. We’d hate to see
delicious gourmet brownies get a bad rap.

After all, at Fairytale Brownies, we pride ourselves on baking
the best brownies in a luxurious assortment of 12
mouthwatering flavors. Our gourmet brownies are the perfect
companion to a good book or a great movie.

Speaking of which, for those among us who aren’t big readers,
the Hannah Swensen stories are about to jump from the page to the
screen. Later this spring, a movie version of the first novel in
the series, 2001’s...

We all get cravings from time to
time, but few of us have the social media following to start a
Twitter avalanche with a simple tweet about brownies.

Earlier this year, singer and
actress Demi Lovato shared her desire for brownies with her 27
million Twitter followers. That tweet has since sparked 28,000
favorites, 16,000 retweets, and countless replies. Not bad for
something so short and (dare we say) sweet:

The
first Cactus League 2015 Spring Training game at Tempe Diablo
Stadium is scheduled for 1:05 p.m. March 5, and we are excited to
announce that Fairytale Brownies will offer a Free Brownie to everyone who brings their ticket into
the Fairytale Bakery before the game.

While most of the country is still buried under several feet of
snow, or bundled up in winter coats and scarves, baseball fans will
be sporting T-shirts and ball caps, and soaking up some Arizona
sunshine. But before you relax at the game, pick up a sweet treat
at Fairytale Brownies down the street!

Spring training game attendees are invited to stop by the bakery
before ANY Tempe Diablo Stadium weekday game throughout the Cactus
League season. If you show your game-day ticket when you purchase a
gourmet brownie, you will receive another
fudge brownie FREE. (BOGO)

Fairytale Brownies is located at 4610 E. Cotton Center Blvd.,
Phoenix - about a mile from Tempe Diablo Stadium. The bakery store
open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday...

Birthdays
are kind of a big deal at Fairytale Brownies. Some of us decorate
cubicles with balloons, streamers and confetti, and shower each
other with gifts of food and little surprises - all to let our
co-workers know they are special. And then we receive a treat from
the owners of the company. I have to say - it doesn't matter how
old you are, that little bit of appreciation boosts your spirits so
much that you feel like you can do anything that day.

Companies will email us a spreadsheet listing the names, birth
dates and addresses to send for a particular month. Then we will
ship the specific gift requested by the birth dates with the
specified gift messages. Some companies choose to deliver brownies to employees, clients or
vendors at their home address. Others ship brownies to their work address. Either
way, the recipient is sure to receive a fresh box of...

For diehard college football
fans, the season doesn’t end with the bowl games. It extends into
February.

That’s when high school seniors
announce which university they’ll play football for in the fall.
Recruiting is a big business in college football – and it trickles
all the way down into the world of desserts.

ESPN’s Jeremy Crabtree recently
reported on a trend of cookie gifts playing a vital role in the
wooing of high school football players.

"Kids get fired up by the
funniest things," Florida Atlantic University assistant coach Nick
Caley toldESPN. "I know we've stepped up our cookie game here
at FAU. We now have cookie cakes for the kids that are the
thickness of a brownie."

The tactic doesn’t always pay
off. We wrote in September about acookie gift
controversyat the University
of South Carolina, which reported seven NCAA rules infractions
including one related to “impermissible iced decorations on a
cookie cake” given to high school recruits.

Thirty-five
years after he was born on this day in 1849, Marcellus Gilmore
Edson changed life as we know it. (Or, at least as I know it, since
I’m somewhat addicted to his invention.)

According to Wikipedia, the Canadian pharmacist became the first
person to patent peanut butter in 1884. In his patent application,
he described peanut butter as having “a consistency like that of
butter, lard, or ointment” and requiring peanuts to be milled to “a
fluid or semi-fluid state.”

If that sounds less than appetizing, our peanut butter-flavored
gourmet brownies and cookie gifts may do the trick for you.

Our customer service team lead Ellie Perry is especially fond of
the cookie. “The peanut butter cookie is a classic-style cookie,”
she said. “Rich peanut butter flavor with just the right amount of
crunch on the edge and soft texture in the middle. LOVE IT!”

Bill Murray’s 1993 comedy hit Groundhog Day is as key to my
knowledge of the holiday as Punxsutawney Phil. As you may recall,
Murray’s character was doomed to repeat Groundhog Day over and over
until he managed to successfully woo costar Andie MacDowell.

Over the last couple years, we’ve asked our teammates which of
our gourmet brownie and cookie gifts is their favorite. These are
the treats they’d enjoy again and again … just in case Groundhog
Day repeats.

“My favorites have got to be
the Toffee Crunch Brownie. I love
the crunchiness of the toffee when it comes straight out of the
refrigerator. Also, the Fairytale Bars are just
so good. I can’t resist the Cheesecake Swirl Bar. Our
sweet and buttery bars can't be beat.” ~ Jasmin Santiago, retail
sales

You may not have seen one yet,
but 3D printers are the next big thing.

What are they? 3D printers
create real-life versions of digital files by layering threads of
plastic on top of one another. NASA recently emailed a file of a
wrench to the International Space Station and the astronauts aboard
“printed” it to tighten a bolt. How cool is that?!?

Not all use cases for a 3D
printer are as glamorous. But they sure can be tasty.

Cookie Casteris a new website where you can design a custom
cookie cutter and print it on your in-home 3D printer. Now that
would make for some unique cookie gifts!

What, you don’t have your own 3D
printer yet? Well, don’t worry about that. As long as you don’t
mind your cookies being round, you canorder cookies by mailfrom Fairytale Brownies.